Category: Civil Aviation

British Airways owner IAG warned on Thursday full-year operating pretax profit will be 215 million euros lower than last year, after major pilot strikes grounded thousands of flights. The strikes were the latest setback for the airline, which in August suffered its third major computer failure in little more than two years, disrupting flights in […]

Ryanair is not interested in taking over any of the airlines of travel firm Thomas Cook, which has gone into liquidation, its chief executive said on Thursday. Thomas Cook’s independent airline units Condor and its Nordic Ving group have both said they are looking for new owners. “Ryanair has no interest in buying another airline,” […]

Air India, on Tuesday, was fined Rs 40,000 for serving non-vegetarian food to a vegetarian couple during their journey from Chicago to New Delhi, according to a report by India Today. A district consumer forum had asked the airline to pay a fine of Rs 10,000. However, the Punjab Consumer Disputes Redressal commission increased the […]

A MiG-21 trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed near the Gwalior airbase on Tuesday, official sources said. Both pilots ejected safely, they said. The aircraft was on a routine mission, and crashed around 10 am, the sources said. The IAF has ordered a court of inquiry to ascertain the cause of the accident, […]

Six pilgrims on board a private helicopter had a narrow escape on Monday when it crash-landed at a helipad close to the Himalayan shrine soon after takeoff. The light helicopter had taken off for Fata from Kedarnath when it developed a technical snag, an official said. The pilot then decided to land on the same […]

About 50,000 tourists are stranded in Greece, mainly on islands, after British travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed, a Greek tourism ministry official told Reuters on Monday. The tourists, mainly British, were vacationing on the islands of Zakynthos, Kos, Corfu, Skiathos and Crete, the official said. “The top priority now is to get them back home,” […]

You have 24 hours to kill in a third country before you board a connecting flight. Why not get out of the airport to explore the city? Many countries allow this with a transit visa. Emirates now offers even a free stay at Dubai for flights from Bengaluru to Europe, the Americas or Africa. But […]

Malaysian carrier Air Asia and the Gulf-based Qatar Airways, Air Arabia and Emirates have come under the scanner of the CBI for allegedly taking help of corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar to get an enhancement of seats and favourable air routes at the cost of Air India and Indian Airlines, officials said. The agency, in its […]

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that it still has no timeframe to lift the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX and that individual countries will decide when the plane can fly again. “Our first priority is safety, and we have set no timeframe for when the work will be completed. Each government will […]

The air emergency service industry is pushing the Centre and the state government to introduce a policy to fund helicopter air ambulances, which they say will save the lives of thousands of highway accident victims every year. “The death toll on the highways is high,” said Dr. Shalini Nalwad, co-founder of the International Critical Care […]

Air India Assets Holdings Ltd (AIAHL) is expected to come out with its second bond offering worth Rs 15,000 crore in the next 10 to 12 days, according to a senior official. AIAHL — the special purpose vehicle of Air India — mopped up Rs 7,000 crore through bonds on Monday and the issue was […]

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) crashed near Chikkenahalli village in Challakere Taluk of Chitradurga district, Karnataka, on Tuesday morning. The drone, a Rustom 2 or (Tapas-4 ADE 19), came down in a farmer’s field at Chikkenahalli. According to sources, the drone had taken off on Tuesday […]